Weddings
A premium wedding cake experience should be fun and easy!
Your wedding cake should feel special, but the process of ordering it should not feel overwhelming. We work with couples who want a beautiful, well made cake and a smooth, straightforward experience along the way.
Everything we create is made from scratch to order using premium ingredients and a design forward approach. Whether your style is clean and elegant, romantic, modern, or more detailed, we focus on creating a cake that feels worthy of the day without making the process harder than it needs to be.
The Raleigh Cakes Wedding Experience
Premium quality. Approachable process.
We are not a grocery store bakery, but a purpose built commercial cake studio with a team of passionate cake artists who love what they do. Our wedding cakes are custom made with a higher level of care, detail, and ingredients.
But that does not mean ordering from us has to feel formal or intimidating.
We believe in clear communication, honest guidance, and making the process feel comfortable and manageable. We help you narrow things down, answer questions clearly, and keep things moving without turning your cake into another source of wedding stress.
We create elegant tiered cakes, whimsical statement pieces, and fully custom designs tailored to your venue, style, and story. From intimate gatherings to large celebrations, you receive professional reliability, premium ingredients, and small batch attention to detail in every bite.
We’re a great fit for couples who want:
A cake that tastes as good as it looks
A polished, elevated design without unnecessary fuss
Clear guidance and an easy ordering process
A custom cake that fits the overall feel of the wedding
A bakery experience that feels warm, helpful, and professional
How Our Wedding Process Works
Step One: Inquiry
Start with our wedding inquiry form. We confirm availability for your date and gather the essentials. Guest count, event date, venue, design preferences, and any inspiration you already have. At this stage we can share general guidance on starting prices, based on your serving needs and style.
Step Two: Design
After you your inspiration images from Pinterest, Google, Instagram, or AI generated concepts, we use these as a guide to understand your aesthetic while creating a design that is unique to you.
Step Three: Tasting Box
For wedding clients we offer a Wedding Tasting Box so you can sample flavors at home and make confident decisions. You choose three flavors and we prepare them as gourmet cupcakes, scratch made just for you. The tasting box cost is twenty five dollars and is credited toward your final wedding cake order once confirmed, with a minimum wedding order value. Tasting Boxes have a 1-2 week lead time.
Step Four: Consultation Call
After reviewing your inspiration and flavor choices, we schedule a consultation call. Together we refine the design, finalize serving needs, discuss delivery and setup, and confirm a comfortable price range. Because each wedding cake is fully custom, we provide detailed pricing only after design, serving count, and flavors have been discussed together.
Step Five: Reserve Your Date
We work on a first to book policy. Once you are ready to proceed, we will send an invoice with a deposit to reserve your date. Your booking is confirmed only when the deposit is received. Without a deposit, dates remain open to other couples and events.
Wedding Tasting Boxes
- Includes three flavors of your choice as gourmet cupcakes
- Everything is baked from scratch just for you
- Twenty five dollar fee credited toward your confirmed wedding cake order
- One tasting box credit per wedding with a minimum wedding order value
Tasting boxes require one to two weeks of lead time. Pickup is available from our North Raleigh partner location with self service pickup during posted hours. To order a tasting box, simply let us know your three desired flavors and preferred pickup location in your reply. We will send an invoice with your pickup date.
Wedding Cake Pricing
Buttercream Wedding Cakes
Basic Wedding Cakes starting around $6.50 per serving. Classic and elegant finishes with smooth buttercream, simple textures, and clean lines. Ideal for couples who want timeless style with a focus on flavor.
Fondant Wedding Cakes
Best for more detailed designs, sculpted textures, and very smooth finishes. Fondant works beautifully with hand painted elements, gold accents, and intricate patterns.
Groom’s Cakes and Showpieces
Groom’s cakes are treated much like celebration cakes and can mild to wild! We have done a lot highly detailed and complex showpiece cakes for the rehearsal dinners.
Complexity can range. These can be simple, themed, sculpted, or playful designs that reflect the couple. We also create fully sculpted centerpiece cakes and realistic designs for events that call for something bold.
There is no minimum size for wedding cakes. We are happy to serve weddings of any size. However, tasting box credits apply only to wedding orders above $250 minimum value and we limit one credit per order.
Catered Events and Dessert Tables
- Custom celebration cakes for large events
- Dessert tables with small bites such as macarons, cake pops, cookies, parfaits and more
- Packages tailored to your event and venue
Add on desserts are available as part of cake orders or catered event packages with minimum quantities. Tell us what you have in mind and we will propose options that match your vision and budget.
Wedding and Event FAQs
We often can accommodate last minute weddings! Please inquire with us even if it is last minute, there is a strong chance we fit you in.
For weddings we typically recommend booking at least several weeks to several months in advance, especially during peak seasons. All of our cakes are made to order and our calendar can fill quickly. The earlier you reach out, the more likely we are to have your date available.
Yes. To provide a meaningful estimate we need the event date, guest count, some design inspiration, and your preferred flavors. Once we have that, we can share a price range and refine it during your consultation.
The right size depends on three things:
your guest count, how you plan to serve it, and your desired display size
Wedding cakes are typically portioned into wedding slices (about 1″ x 2″), which are smaller than standard party slices. This allows a tiered cake to serve more guests than people often expect.
Below is a general guide based on standard wedding servings:
If your guest count falls between sizes, we can:
Add a small cutting cake
Adjust tier diameters slightly
Supplement with sheet cakes (kept in the kitchen)
Pair your cake with additional desserts
If you prefer larger dessert-style slices (2″ x 2″), plan for about 25–30% fewer servings from the same cake size.
For example:
A cake listed at 100 wedding servings may serve closer to 70–75 generous party slices.
Not Every Guest Eats Cake
If you’re also offering:
Dessert tables
Late-night treats
Multiple dessert options
You may be able to size down slightly.
If cake is the only dessert, we recommend covering at least 90–100% of your guest count.
Our Recommendation
Tell us your confirmed guest count, and we’ll recommend the most balanced tier combination so your cake looks beautiful, proportioned, and serves comfortably without excess waste.
Because your cake should be just as thoughtfully sized as it is designed.
Yes, we can provide individual dessert add-ons if you are looking to keep your cake smaller but still need to serve more people. This is a very common and budget friendly option. We offer cupcakes, cake pops, dessert cups (parfaits) and more.
Tastings are entirely optional. Many couples choose a Wedding Tasting Box to sample flavors at home, then finalize decisions during their consultation call. The tasting cost is credited toward qualifying wedding orders.
Yes and we prefer them. We can coordinate with your florist or decorator to ensure flowers and decor are cake safe and applied correctly. We can also provide sugar flowers, silk and other edible design elements if you prefer, but nothing beats the appearance of fresh florals.
We offer many gluten free, dairy free, and nut friendly options on request, but our kitchen is not certified allergen free. We take every precaution however and follow a strict sanitization protocol for any orders requiring these options. We can discuss what is possible and help you decide what is appropriate for your guests’ needs as some flavors/pairings are not possible in certain “free from…” formats.
Yes. We are happy to discuss additional cakes or dessert options for related events and can build a package that covers multiple celebrations in the same wedding weekend.
We are happy to serve the greater Triangle area. Wedding and event delivery is calculated based on distance, time, and setup requirements at your venue based on the final design and needs for any given cake. We dedicated minimally 3-hours, even for local events, for prep time, padded travel time to avoid delays, and on site staging time.
All booking/billing is on online through our payment processor via invoice. A deposit is required to secure any cake order with Raleigh Cakes.
For Wedding and Catered Events we can provide a sample contract that covers all of our policies related to date changes, cancellations, and refunds
Please use the same contact form and choose “Catered Event” as the occasion.
We frequently cater events in the low to mid hundreds with 200-300 being common. With adequate notice, we can accommodate events with up to 1,000 guests.